If you or I have an acquaintance or maybe even a family member who at one time had murdered another person, decades could pass and the heinousness of that crime would never leave our mind. I'm not talking about forgiveness....that's another topic altogether....I'm talking about acknowledging in our mind that a crime has been committed. In the sickness of our society today we can easily forget, tolerate and even at times applaud such crimes. Many do this in the case of Fidel Castro. We can rationalize it as... well that was war....when it wasn't war....it was communist terrorism....it was murder!
Castro put to death thousands of human beings....."no problem.....I don't have a functioning conscience to inform me of this." Communism has done this to tens of millions for a century...."no problem...I don't have a brain to think this thing through." Che was a murderer...."no problem....he looked cool with that beard and beret."
This travesty of the human intellect will not go unnoticed by God but it still doesn't matter to us what others may have done in the past for...."political realities have made these murderers acceptable... even at times laudable," but If they have become acceptable to us then their crimes have become acceptable to us also. If I support abominations because they are beneficial to America then I am at fault also. Our government has done this in the past and we are collapsing in no small measure because we have lost the unction...in all matters... to simply do what is right and trust in God...as difficult as doing what is right is at times to even discern.
'It's impossible for a society to function in any other way' you say? First of all...no it isn't impossible....secondly, even if it was impossible we do not have to be a part of it. Fidel Castro has murdered, he has tortured, and he has imprisoned for Communism. He may not be a mass murderer on a scale of Mao or Stalin but he is a mass murderer none the less and we should have been as disdainful of even his shadow landing upon us as fearful of the crimes themselves applied to our account.
I may make this look easy...but it is not easy and I understand that. If we lived in a barbarian's country as Paul did under Nero it would be one thing but we have a responsibility to a civilized government that we not only live under but one which through the Founding Fathers whom we cherish... we chose for ourselves.
Castro put to death thousands of human beings....."no problem.....I don't have a functioning conscience to inform me of this." Communism has done this to tens of millions for a century...."no problem...I don't have a brain to think this thing through." Che was a murderer...."no problem....he looked cool with that beard and beret."
This travesty of the human intellect will not go unnoticed by God but it still doesn't matter to us what others may have done in the past for...."political realities have made these murderers acceptable... even at times laudable," but If they have become acceptable to us then their crimes have become acceptable to us also. If I support abominations because they are beneficial to America then I am at fault also. Our government has done this in the past and we are collapsing in no small measure because we have lost the unction...in all matters... to simply do what is right and trust in God...as difficult as doing what is right is at times to even discern.
'It's impossible for a society to function in any other way' you say? First of all...no it isn't impossible....secondly, even if it was impossible we do not have to be a part of it. Fidel Castro has murdered, he has tortured, and he has imprisoned for Communism. He may not be a mass murderer on a scale of Mao or Stalin but he is a mass murderer none the less and we should have been as disdainful of even his shadow landing upon us as fearful of the crimes themselves applied to our account.
I may make this look easy...but it is not easy and I understand that. If we lived in a barbarian's country as Paul did under Nero it would be one thing but we have a responsibility to a civilized government that we not only live under but one which through the Founding Fathers whom we cherish... we chose for ourselves.
